At Least He Was Polite A polite and considerate suicide case threw himself under a lumber truck in Queens on Thursday, Nov. 4. Before taking the dive, however, 67-year-old Gideon Feuer wrote two notes and left them in his car, which was parked nearby. The first stated that what he'd done was, in fact, a suicide. He also apologized in advance to the truck driver. The second note confirmed that the car was his, and instructed EMS workers that they'd find the keys in his left pants pocket. You sure don't get that sort of courtesy from train jumpers. As for the impolite: Unbelievable as it sounds, several malcontented, energetic youngsters actually grew rowdy at a punk rock show last weekend! Can you imagine? Those Satanic hardcore charmers, Leftover Crack, were finishing up their set at the Sunday-afternoon show at Tompkins Square Park when (gasp!) people started throwing bottles. A few cops waded into the rambunctious crowd to shut things down, but got scared. More cops arrived. In the end, the show was indeed unplugged, and five scary, dangerous punk rockers are facing disorderly conduct charges. A 15-year-old Coney Island girl was picked up Monday during a generalized JD sweep through the area. She was handcuffed and placed in the back of an NYPD minivan, while a female officer stood guard by the door. Then somehow the teen wriggled one hand free of the cuffs, and used the dangling bit of urban jewelry to wallop the officer across the head. A brief struggle ensued, and the teen escaped. It seems absurd at first that a 15-year-old girl could overpower an NYPD officer-until you learn that the girl weighed 155 pounds.
Police recaptured her early Wednesday, and she'll now be facing much more than the original piddling drug charges.
Perhaps he saw it as a matter of convenience, or maybe it was too chilly to go out last weekend. Whatever the case, 26-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident Alton Mistari invited another young man into his apartment, then proceeded to mug him. After stealing some jewelry off the man, Mistari sent him home, warning him not to tell anyone. When it comes to mugging, however, the honor system rarely works. The victim went to the cops and gave them Mistari's address. When several officers arrived at Mistari's place, they discovered a small arsenal of weapons and eight pounds of pot. As one officer told the Post, "You've got to be pretty stupid to be robbing someone in your own house."
Instead of receiving a medal of honor, two men are facing charges for assaulting a mime and trying to steal his change bucket. Damiam Decasta and Jose Espinal were arraigned on Wednesday for the Oct. 2 incident in which they struggled with mime Elhadj Tandia in Midtown. That Tandia was dressed like the Statue of Liberty at the time opens the door for all sorts of political commentary, but what shocks us more than anything else is that passers-by had actually given him $23. And what's a mime doing out there at 3 a.m., anyway?